Interactive 3D city model of Adelaide
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 2:14 pm
Adelaide's Premier Development and Construction Site
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That's something I've been strongly wishing to see. Imagine watching the city centre and the whole urban area grow and expand outwards and (sort of) upwards. From the 70s to now the CBD will be a lot wider and significantly taller making it a lot more dense. Imagine if each building was colour coded according to year or decade.MelBrandle wrote:That's really impressive! I wonder how often the company that is streaming this needs to remodel or reimage the city in order for it to be up to date. It'll be interesting for them to keep all these images in storage over time to show how the city has changed over the years. A morphing 3D image of Adelaide - that would really be something wouldn't it?
lolslenderman wrote:(Yes Mono, I'm well aware that these photos are oversized, but the quality plummeted when I tried to resize them).
That's awesome and just the sort of thing I wanted to see. As I thought it kind of expands out in a ring, except for buildings which replace older ones like 115 KWS. Older images of Adelaide show the city as becoming abruptly flat, perhaps only up to three stories at most, once you get just a little out from the CBD centre. The influx of multi storey buildings, mostly around Light Square, Hindmarsh Square and south King William Street have quite a lot to change the look of the city.slenderman wrote:Hi Ser Noit of Loit. I come bearing some news I hope will please you. In return, I want to ask what your username means. It's been intriguing me.
Anyway, I happened to be playing around with Sketchup some more lately, building my own little 3D Adelaide, but you gave me the idea to colour code the buildings corresponding to the decade in which they were completed, which I thought would be cool as a way of determining the relative level of high rise development in each decade.
So I present to you (and anyone else who might be interested) a 3D model of the high rise buildings in the Adelaide CBD. The map I've used contains only the "Square Mile", so no InterContinental or University buildings unfortunately. I'm fairly sure this model contains every building over the height of 35m (based on Emporis data) in this area, although it's possible I've missed some. Please note that it only contains buildings either complete or under construction, so no proposed developments here (I don't want to get too carried away with things that don't exist yet). Also note that I've used mainly plain boxes, though I put a bit more effort into some of the building shapes, such as Westpac House, Telstra House and the Myer Centre.